1. A 14 line stanza written in iambic pentameter, that employs the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef,gg, and can be divided into three quatrains and a couplet.

2.  A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, sort of like a paragraph in a poem.

3.  A quattrain is a stanza that consists of 4 lines.

4.  A couplet is a group of 2 lines.

5.  Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines. The words at the end of each line are used to determine the pattern.

6.  Lines of poetry that can be divided into 5 metric feet (feet are groups of 2 syllables, so 10 syllables per line) with alternately unstressed and stressed syllables.

7.  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,  And summer's lease hath all too short a date:  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,  And often is his gold complexion dimmed,  And every fair from fair sometime declines,  By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:  But thy eternal summer shall not fade,  Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,  Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,  When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,  So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

8.  When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,  I all alone beweep my outcast state,  And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,  And look upon my self and curse my fate,  Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,  Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,  Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,  With what I most enjoy contented least,  Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,  Haply I think on thee, and then my state,  (Like to the lark at break of day arising  From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate,  For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

9.  My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,  Coral is far more red, than her lips red,  If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:  If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:  I have seen roses damasked, red and white,  But no such roses see I in her cheeks,  And in some perfumes is there more delight,  Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.  I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,  That music hath a far more pleasing sound:  I grant I never saw a goddess go,  My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,  As any she belied with false compare.